Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When her voice came to his ears it denied the ordinariness of her clothes and the simplicity suggested by her powderless face and loose lying hair , for her tone was crisp , each word clear . |
| 2 | In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it became the custom to bind a number of small books and , especially , pamphlets up together in calf or morocco , often suitably labelled on the spine . |
| 3 | The popular courts survived far longer , and the royal court remained stronger than elsewhere in northern Europe ; and in the twelfth century the royal court began to grow in importance , until in later centuries it swallowed the jurisdiction of most other courts . |
| 4 | But for such vituperation and the violence it provoked the law could not punish him , though it tried to do so on a number of occasions . |
| 5 | For most of England , it was a triumph , but in Dorchester it sapped the life out of their pious busyness . |
| 6 | For the technically minded , there is a standard way of constructing one such G– from G. It involves the notion of a walk . |
| 7 | In the New Testament it provides the terms in which the death of Jesus Christ is explained ( see for instance Hebrews 9:11ff . ) . |
| 8 | Therefore , whilst in theory the compact could be approved by a simple majority , in practice it required the removal of the anti-nuclear clauses from the Constitution , a process which required a 75 per cent vote in its favour . |
| 9 | A complete microcomputer system will generally comprise : i ) the computer/processor itself , with a large amount of memory a workspace for storing instructions and data ; ii ) a screen and keyboard ; iii ) probably a printer ; iv ) some kind of external storage device — usually disk drives There is one major difference between microcomputers and other larger computers It concerns the way in which information is stored by the computer . |
| 10 | If it needed a car it borrowed the Army 's one . |
| 11 | Loud noise ( usually delivered as " white noise " — a wide-band mixture of tones , sounding like a monotonous hiss as from a N set unconnected to an aerial ) is a potent arouser , and in rested subjects it has the effect of focusing attention in a dual component task . |
| 12 | In other words it provides the context , but the actual shape and form of local politics is the outcome of a whole number of processes operating at both the local and the national level . |
| 13 | In other words it leaves the format open to the department concerned ? |
| 14 | In the United States it remained the case that no new nuclear generators had been ordered since 1978 . |
| 15 | This is difficult to define satisfactorily , but in the context of brief therapy it involves the therapist suggesting to the patient the possible motivation underlying his behaviour , with the objective of increasing understanding as a step towards behaviour change ( e.g. overeating may be explained in terms of a patient 's need for comfort at times of loneliness so that the patient may be more able to tackle the problem ) . |
| 16 | In effect it shows the flow of money through the company for the trading period . |
| 17 | In effect it gave the UK all the frequencies needed for a nationwide Carfax service on a dedicated lattice . |
| 18 | He argues that if anyone questions the suitability of a designer as a captain of industry it displays the lack of understanding about the true nature of design that has plagued this country for many years . |
| 19 | In the long term it committed the papacy to active government . |
| 20 | For the longer term it envisaged the strengthening of civil liberties , a ‘ stage-by-stage transition to a market system ’ , international cooperation and democratisation of the party itself . |
| 21 | The line that tensions the sail down the length of the mast and is connected to the mastfoot. it controls the shape at the front of the sail . |
| 22 | For both parties it monitors the number of users logged into software , how often its used and reports back licence infringements . |
| 23 | But helped by the wind it cleared the hump in the middle of the fairway , bounced high off the forward slope and ran through the narrow gap between the bunkers . |
| 24 | London have all the entertainment , music and modern technology , famous buildings , statues , and money ; but on the opposite side it has the ugliness , violence , loneliness , homelessness , lots of pollution , litter , the poor run-down parts of London . |
| 25 | Its history is a long one in Scotland and in 1786 it was already a polled breed ( though some were scurred ) but in other respects it resembled the Highland , especially in shape and colour . |
| 26 | In some respects it resembles the wartime leadership style of Lloyd George ( 1916 — 22 ) and Winston Churchill ( 1940 — 5 ) . |
| 27 | But ICI reckons that in a number of key areas it has the edge over the competition . |
| 28 | The second it to ask the suppliers to provide information on the correlation between different census variables and the various geodemographic systems . |
| 29 | No wonder it tows the Peter Lynn Buggy ( with himself steering on board ) all over wherever land surfing and similar buggy racing is permitted . |
| 30 | Below the vernier is an illuminated mute button which shuts down the output socket sited on the far right , so when the tuner is put in line between the guitar and amp it mutes the signal after the tuner , for silent tuning on stage . |